Creative Circles meeting with Jennings, Kathryn Carlyle, Philip Butera and Ralph Papa / 2021


 

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  Bio – Philip M. Butera Philip M. Butera grew up in Bualo, NY, earned a BS degree From Gannon College in Erie, PA, served in the US Navy then received an MA in Psychology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has published four books of poetry, “Mirror Images and Shards of Glass,” “Dark Images at Sea,” “I Never Finished Loving You,” and “Falls from Grace, Favor and High Places.” His crime novel, “Caught Between,” has been published, and his second novel, “Art and Mystery: The Missing Poe Manuscript,” will be available in Spring 2022. Seven Story Rabbit audiobooks, Jacol Publishing, with Philip are scripting his novel “Caught Between” into a Podcast radio series at Podpopuli Recording Studio. He has a column in the quarterly magazine Per Niente. and for years was a contributing editor for EatSleepWrite.net. Philip won full scholarships to the 2017 Palm Beach Poetry Festival, 2017 Creative Ca pital Workshops, and the 2018 Creative Capital Advanced Weekend W ork
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 Following are some Quotes about Philip Butera's work:  “Philip Butera never fails to stun his many readers. Falls from Grace, Favor and High Places is no exception.  His brilliance makes this the book that lingers on the desk or coffee table, teasing the reader with “just once more.”  Each reading offers more to ingest and digest.  His knowledge of the classics and the skillful manner that he weaves them into modern storylines is impressive in various poetic forms.  He is fluent in romance without a catalog of butterflies and rainbows. Instead, he cuts precisely into the meat of loving and loss. “There is little unsaid. Philip sees no reason to cauterize the true nature of relationships gone awry but maintains that memory seldom serves as a salve.  This book is a testament to the fact that poetry walks, runs, and gallops through our lives and is intrinsic to our truly grasping the entirety of human existence.   “When Philip Butera and Lorna Thomson write together, their juxtaposit
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